Yeti: Maneater Series
by Paul Ziller
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Actor: Adam O'Byrne, Brandon Jay McLaren, Carly Pope, Elfina Luk, Marc MenardDirector: Paul Ziller
Brand: Genius
Producer: Aaron Barnett
Producer: Dana Dubovsky
Producer: Daniel Grodnik
Producer: Eric Gozlan
Producer: Mark L. Lester
Writer: Mark L. Lester
Writer: Rafael Jordan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 81755
Studio: Grodfilm
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DVD Review: Football In The Himalayas, Or, The Yeti Is Out Of Bounds
Summary: 2 Stars
"Yeti" (also known as "Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon") is a horrible but hilarious Sasquatch flick from The Sci-Fi channel with every stereotype and cliche in the book, plus a few new ones. The film features terrible CGI, a ludicrous script, and horrid acting for starters. In a nutshell, a college football team (and assorted random females) from "State College" are flying from the US to Japan when they crash in Nepal and are chased by a Yeti. Therein my first problem is revealed: what airline goes from the continental United States to Japan via Nepal? Just a tad out of the way, you say? Well, that is probably the most believable element of the film.
While over the Himalayas, the plane (the filmmakers can't decide if it's a 737, 747, or business jet, but I won't nitpick) encounters a storm and crashes. Suffice it to say that the CGI 747, storm, and plane crash are unbelievably unrealistic for a film made in 2008. Even worse, the whiny cast is so annoying that you may, like me, be hoping the Himalayan Yetis defeat The State College Grizzlies in the Bigfoot Bowl. Not only can't the cast act, but they really don't have much to work with: the script is the only thing worse than the CGI.
After the crash, the cast looks around for food in everyone's backpacks and pockets, but it never even dawns on them to look in the galley before the cannibalism subplot emerges. (A football team stuck in the mountains resorting to cannibalism? Now there's an original idea....) After the coach says something motivating to the handsome quarterback and promptly dies, the cast turns on each other despite the obvious menace that keeps raiding the camp for bodies. The Yeti is very angry, and not only runs, but hops and jumps (you have to see this CGI to believe it) in a menacing way, all the while looking like a cross between Chewbacca with mange, the Cowardly Lion with head lice, and Robert Z'Dar after being in an autoclave. (These filmmakers only wish they had someone of Z'Dar's talent.)
The cast goes hunting for rabbit with a piece of luggage and a stick, but it's the pretty girl who saves the day and brings home the hasenpfeffer in another wholly credible scene. While the main cast is dabbling in cannibalism and honing their survival skills, there are two parallel plots about a brave second-string player in search of the plane's radio who evades the lightning-fast Yeti for five days with two broken legs (!), and a couple of people from the Yeti patrol (or some such nonsense) who are hiking across the mountains to rescue the crash survivors. Their hike through the Himalayas looks more like an outing at Park City, Utah with glorious sunshine and a shallow base of powdery snow. The three disparate elements finally unify, although in the process they validate the old Himalayan adage "Never let the blowhard jock have the flare gun."
As the cast converges, they are presented with a quandary: the Yeti has kidnapped the quarterback's girlfriend. Should they look for her or not? Of course they do, and they find her in a cave asleep and spooning with the Yeti. Their plan to rescue her defies belief, and involves digging a deep trench outside the cave in sheer rock, in absolute silence, placing spears in the bottom for the Yeti to fall on, subsequently causing an avalanche to bury the Yeti, but not them. Stunningly, this seems to work, although be prepared for multiple tedious false endings. In the end the football star uses his gridiron skills and tackles the Yeti into submission, taking him out of bounds and off a cliff with an assist from the rabbit slayer. Oh, and the two principals fall in love. Obviously.
This movie is one of the most predictable of all films, and would have been an excellent episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." It does have good camp value, and is well worth laughing at if you can endure the annoying cast. It has zero value as a "serious" monster movie. It is unscary and ridiculous at every turn. The DVD has a trailer, but no other extras, but it is extremely annoying in that it features a long set of previews that you cannot skip at the beginning of the film. As real entertainment this film scores nil, as a film to mock it is off the chart, so I was tempted to average it out and give it three stars, but the previews and irritating cast took it down to two.
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